"Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know."

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Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bohumil Hrabal

#Dream Quotes #Moving Quotes #Book Quotes

“Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .”
“Be a light unto oneself”
“My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.”
“I love meeting people, and I know it's so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce themselves, so when they do, I'll grab them and hug them. It makes their day, you know? I love that, and I get positive energy from that.”

Source : "What Diesel's Nicola Formichetti Learned from Lady Gaga" by Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. May 2, 2013.
“What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.”
“A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.”
“Guys are OK... shake their hand... Women are special. You can hug 'em.”

Source : "Character: Bon Scott". "AC/DC: Let There Be Rock", www.imdb.com. 1980.
“People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions. Bob Shaw has observed that the deadliest questions usually come as a pair: "Have you published anything?" - loosely translated as: I've never heard of you - and "What name do you write under?" - loosely translatable as: I've definitely never heard of you.”

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